Conquering Active Directory's 1000 Record Limit

PowerShell is capable of pulling list of 1492 records. When I using Python with ldap3 module I'm bumping into 1000 records limit. Please help me change Python code to exceed the l

Solution 1:

If you change your code to using the paged_search method of the extend.standard namespace instead you should be able to retrieve all the results you are looking for.

Just be aware that you will need to treat the response object differently.

defget_ldap_info(u):
with Connection(Server('XXX', port=636, use_ssl=True),
                auto_bind=AUTO_BIND_NO_TLS,
                read_only=True,
                check_names=True,
                user='XXX', password='XXX') as c:

    results = c.extend.standard.paged_search(search_base='dc=XXX,dc=XXX,dc=XXX',
             search_filter='(&(samAccountName=' + u + '))',        
             search_scope=SUBTREE,
             attributes=ALL_ATTRIBUTES,
             #attributes = ['cn'],
             get_operational_attributes=True)        


i = 0for item in results:
    #print(item)
    i += 1print(i)  
get_ldap_info('*')

Solution 2:

The solution is available in the following link.

This piece of code will fetch page by page.

from ldap3 import Server, Connection, SUBTREE
total_entries = 0
server = Server('test-server')
c = Connection(server, user='username', password='password')
c.search(search_base = 'o=test',
         search_filter = '(objectClass=inetOrgPerson)',
         search_scope = SUBTREE,
         attributes = ['cn', 'givenName'],
         paged_size = 5)
total_entries += len(c.response)
for entry in c.response:
    print(entry['dn'], entry['attributes'])
cookie = c.result['controls']['1.2.840.113556.1.4.319']['value']['cookie']
while cookie:
    c.search(search_base = 'o=test',
             search_filter = '(objectClass=inetOrgPerson)',
             search_scope = SUBTREE,
             attributes = ['cn', 'givenName'],
             paged_size = 5,
             paged_cookie = cookie)
    total_entries += len(c.response)
    cookie = c.result['controls']['1.2.840.113556.1.4.319']['value']['cookie']
    for entry in c.response:
        print(entry['dn'], entry['attributes'])
print('Total entries retrieved:', total_entries)